Stephen Frail cannot stop Hearts going from bad to worse

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The Heart of Midlothian board seems no closer to naming the “European-class new coach” they have long promised to deliver to Tynecastle. Men of the calibre of Nevio Scala, the former coach of Parma and Borussia Dortmund and Lothar Matth?us, the former German World Cup-winning captain, have been mentioned without actually signing anything to tie them to a move to Edinburgh.

Perhaps the Gorgie directors should be looking closer to home and turn to the past for the solution.

Jim Jefferies, the Kilmarnock manager, spent five enjoyable years at Tynecastle building a team that won the Scottish Cup and, as